Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came near to suggesting that peace talk at such a time was the next thing to treason, the white-haired veteran protested bitterly that he was the "last man to propose a surrender." Only Mr. Lloyd George knew precisely why he made such a speech at such a time, but one could guess that the old man, having once conducted Britain through...
What did the hitch about the papers mean? Was Russia just going to march in without treaty formalities? With only a few minutes to spare, the Soviet Minister to Estonia finally drove up to the Foreign Office, ratifications were exchanged and Foreign Minister Karl Selter expressed his perspiring relief. Next thing M. Selter knew, the Soviet Union calmly demanded an extra Red Army base in Estonia not mentioned in the Treaty...
...Moscow would rest content for a time at least with having obtained prime ice-free outlets to the Baltic through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This gives Russia what she has long desired, a "Central Outlet" midway between her "Northern Outlet" via Murmansk and her "Southern Outlet" via the Dardanelles. Next Soviet thrust, Scandinavians devoutly hoped, may be in the Black Sea, possibly to persuade Rumania to "lease" at Constantsa a Soviet naval base...
...Moselle Sector, next to Luxembourg, penetration was "almost three miles"; in the Lauter Sector, next to the Rhine, "about one mile...
When the Cabinet assembled next afternoon, the President, who likes nothing better than to pop a dramatic surprise, was grave. He wanted their opinions, he said, as to whether he should make public the message he had received. He told them what it was. The Secretaries were variously shocked, disgusted, amused. They split, 5-to-5, on whether to make the information public. The President thereupon cast his own deciding vote, told them he had made up his mind: he would tell the people. Later in the day newspapermen were called in and given a bulletin...